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We study the radiation of thermal photons and dileptons likely to be produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We find that the thermal photon multiplicity scales with the charged pion multiplicity as $dN_{ch}/dy)^\alpha$ with…

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The viscous correction to thermal photon production at leading log order is calculated and integrated over the space-time evolution of a hydrodynamic simulation of heavy-ion collisions. The resulting transverse momentum spectra and elliptic…

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This work presents calculations of thermal dilepton emission and polarization observables. It features a comprehensive framework which comprises virtual photon spectral functions complete at next-to-leading-order in the strong coupling and…

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We discuss real and virtual photon sources in heavy ion collisions and present results for dilepton yields in Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC at intermediate and large transverse momentum p_T.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-07-03 Rainer J. Fries , S. Turbide , C. Gale , D. K. Srivastava

A status report of utilizing soft electromagnetic radiation (aka thermal photons and dileptons) in the diagnosis of strongly interacting matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is given. After briefly elaborating on relations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-20 Ralf Rapp

We calculate the thermal photon distribution from the hot QCD matter produced by high energy nuclear collisions based on a hydrodynamical model, and compare it with the recent experimental data obtained by CERN WA80. Through the asymptotic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Tetsufumi Hirano , Shin Muroya , Mikio Namiki

Dileptons produced during heavy-ion collisions represent a unique probe of the QCD phase diagram, and convey information about the state of the strongly interacting system at the moment their preceding off-shell photon is created. In this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-08 Jessica Churchill , Lipei Du , Charles Gale , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon

We discuss the recent status of some penetrating electromagnetic probes of relativistic nuclear collisions, and the information contained in their measurement. We concentrate in turn on sources that produce high p_T photons: those of purely…

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The transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra from heavy-ion collisions at intermediate momenta are described by non-extensive statistical models. Assuming a fixed relative variance of the temperature fluctuating event by event or alternatively a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Keming Shen , Tamas S. Biro , Enke Wang

We propose intensity interferometry with identical lepton pairs as an efficient tool for the estimation of the source size of the expanding hot zone produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. This can act as a complementary method to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan-e Alam , Bedangadas Mohanty , A. Rahaman , Sourav Sarkar , Bikash Sinha

We study the lepton pair photoproduction in peripheral heavy-ion collisions based on the formalism in our previous work [Phys. Rev. D 104, 056011 (2021)]. We present the numerical results for the distributions of the transverse momentum,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Ren-jie Wang , Shuo Lin , Shi Pu , Yi-fei Zhang , Qun Wang

Dilepton and direct photon measurements in heavy ion collisions provide access to the early stages of the collision. Dilepton continuum measurements at SPS and RHIC show an excess consistent with broadening of the rho meson spectral…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Campbell

We present a systematic investigation of lepton pair production through photon-photon fusion processes in heavy-ion collisions. It is demonstrated that the dilepton production at a given impact parameter ($b_\perp$) with a fixed transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-17 Yu Shi , Lin Chen , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao

The photon spectra measured by the ALICE collaboration in Pb+Pb collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies has been analyzed with a view of extracting the properties of thermal system formed in these collisions. The results of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-05 Sukanya Mitra , Payal Mohanty , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Jan-e Alam

The theory of thermal photon and dilepton emission from a hot and dense hadronic gas, as well as from the Quark-Gluon Plasma, is reviewed in the context of extracting in-medium properties of the matter constituents. In phenomenological…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Ralf Rapp

The current status of photon and dilepton emission in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is reviewed, and recent developments are highlighted. The importance of emissions at early, intermediate and late times is emphasized.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Jean-François Paquet

The cold component of large transverse momentum dilepton production via semi-coherent two-photon interaction is calculated. The cold contribution is essential to the dilepton spectra in the soft region for different mass bins. The results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-08 Yong-Ping Fu , Yun-De Li

Multimessenger studies of heavy-ion collisions, using hadrons and electromagnetic probes, can reveal the properties of the created QCD matter from different perspectives. This study calculates the thermal dilepton invariant mass spectra and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-20 Lipei Du

Highly charged relativistic heavy ions have high cross-sections for two-photon interactions. The photon flux is high enough that two-photon interactions may be accompanied by additional photonuclear interactions. Except for the shared…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-06 Anthony J. Baltz , Yuri Gorbunov , Spencer R. Klein , Joakim Nystrand

Dilepton and photon production in heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies is studied in the relativistic transport model that incorporates self-consistently the change of hadron masses in dense matter. It is found that the dilepton spectra in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Q. Li , G. E. Brown , C. Gale , C. M. Ko